Nicole and I just went to the International Spy Museum in DC. I highly recommend it; you should consider going sometime soon. Some fascinating spy facts:

• 67% of Americans think someone, somewhere is keeping a file on them for unknown reasons.
• The annual U.S. intelligence budget is secret, but estimated to be something like $30 billion dollars. That’s over $82,000,000 per day. Wow.
• Daniel DaFoe, author of Robinson Crusoe, had a hand in the formation of England’s modern intelligence service.
• According to this museum, some of the earliest spies were the 12 sent by Moses to check out Canaan. The earliest codebreaker? They pick Daniel, for breaking the code –interpreting–Nebuchadnezzer’s dreams.

The Spy Museum is one of those many things in and around Washington that are educational, fun, or just plain cool, but that we take for granted because we live so close. What sites in the area has your family visited recently that you would recommend?

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